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the descriptions and interpretations with which 
we have been favored from time to time. We 
have dwelt on, till we have become enamored 
of the delicate mode of expressing the rise and 
progress of love by the gift of the tender rose¬ 
bud, or the full blown flower. We have pitied 
the despair indicated by a present of myrtle 
interwoven with cypress and poppies, and we 
believe that these emblems will never cease 
to convey some similar sentiments, wherever 
poetry is cultivated or delicacy understood.” 
— The same author continues, “But” — Oh. 
reader, mark that “ but,” ’tis a frightful word, 
is it not ? ever coming to dissipate some bright 
dream, to scare some beautiful phantom of the 
imagination from our presence, and to guide our 
wandering feet back into the world of cold 
reality, where— 
“ The mute expression of sweet nature’s voices, 
Are drowned amid the turmoil of life’s noises; 
Where thoughts of fear and darkness come unbidden, 
And love and hope are into silence chidden.”—II. G. A. 
“ But we fear that the Turkish ( Language of 
Flowers, which Lady Montague first made 
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